New York Post [Page Six] - September 3, 2003
PARIS IS BURNING - FOR INGRID
PARIS Hilton is adding some sapphic sizzle to her love life. The hot-to-trot hotel heiress has apparently flipped for former Madonna galpal Ingrid Casares.
Hilton and Casares scandalized South Beach last weekend by smooching, holding hands and dirty-dancing in nightclubs all over town.
The uncanny coupling erupted Friday night on the dance floor at Prive, the site of an Ocean Drive magazine bash for "The Simple Life," the Fox reality show chronicling Hilton's and best friend Nicole Richie's wacky month on an Arkansas farm.
The high-stepping Hiltie was spotted locking lips on the dance floor with Casares, a well-connected South Beach party promoter who has dated Madonna and Sandra Bernhard. The show went on until the wee hours of Saturday morning, when they slipped out the club's back door together.
On Saturday night, Paris and Ingrid joined "Party Monster" stars Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green and Wilmer Valderama for a rooftop screening atop the Delano hotel. At the after-party at Prive, Ashton Kutcher, sporting a diamond-encrusted hammer necklace that would make P. Diddy proud, boogied to hip-hop with his "That '70s Show" co-stars Danny Masterson and Valderama.
Though Demi Moore was nowhere in sight, lovesick Kutcher paged his well-preserved sweetie every 30 minutes.
Kutcher may have been on his best behavior, but there were plenty of other hook-ups happening around him. Valderama was ensconced in a banquette with Colombian bombshell Sofia Vergara, while Culkin shared champagne with girlfriend Mila Kunis and Hilton and Casares danced atop the club's main bar.
The weekend wound down with several pool parties and even more gossip: Seth Green was said to have hooked up with Nicole Richie, the hard-partying daughter of singer Lionel Richie.
Paris, who has been linked to everyone from "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath to ageless producer Robert Evans - but whose steady boyfriend is Sum 41's Deryck Whibley - still seemed besotted with Casares on Monday morning. They were spotted floating on a raft in the Delano pool.